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Teens and sexual identity

|MercatorNet|November 3, 2017| MercatorNet|

Teens and sexual identity

What to tell your kids when their friends come out as 'bi'.

Carolyn Moynihan | Nov 3 2017 |  

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In the following "Dear Katy" video from Cana Vox, Katy answers a mother's question about a trend among US high school kids: coming out as bisexual. The issue could just as easily be the transgender fad. However, Katy advises making the children's reports about thier "bi" friends a teachable moment.
 

This seems pretty good advice. What do you think?

Republished with permission from Cana Vox.

November 3, 2017

"More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads.  One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction.  Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly."  That's Woody Allen, quoted by Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, at the opening of his wonderful lecture on "Cultural climate change", delivered in New York during the summer and republished today on MercatorNet. "Well, that's how it seems sometimes," he adds to Allen's wisecrack, but that's where the pessimism ends. What follows is a realistic but also optimistic survey of religion in society. Rabbi Sacks is a welcome voice of faith and reason in public life today.

In other articles: Law professor Steven Smith pinpoints the issue behind the pending US Supreme Court case Masterpiece Cakeshop, and similar cases involving vendors who have declined on religious grounds to provide particular message-conveying services for same-sex weddings; Michael Cook shows why there might yet be a 'No' majority in Australia's same-sex marriage referendum; Marcus Roberts looks at what is feeding the opioid epidemic; and Rafael Hurtado highlights a charming animated film about an ordinary British couple of last century: Ethel and Ernest: a True Story. Something to look forward to!

Carolyn Moynihan
Deputy Editor,
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